[none_to_remain]

2025: watching live footage from a doomed spaceship as it tumbles out of control through its own vented gases, all tinged red, as a synth soundtrack plays.

(The soundtrack was on the X.com stream, seems cut from this link.)

[pulvinar]

Though they missed an opportunity: Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJrtROuQFfk&t=9s

[runarberg]

Such a good movie... Do you happen to know which spacecraft this was?

[RichardCA]

It's very close to Apollo 11 but the match is not precise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUQgBPjGmAQ#t=35

AFIAK no one has ever done an exhaustive analysis of the provenance of all that stock footage.

This is an example of someone chasing it down. I don't think it's been done for all the Saturn V launches (Apollo 4 thru the last Skylab launch). That would be a big ask.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBITROWVcok

As a kid growing up in the 70's it was perfectly normal to see a documentary about Apollo 11 where they throw in the Apollo 4 Stage 2 ring separation like it was no big deal. The awareness of all these subtle differences is a recent development.

[pulvinar]

And also starting at 0:43 in that clip is the rocket that explodes, an Atlas-Centaur on its maiden flight on May 8, 1962. It was the Centaur upper stage that failed, but I believe we see the Atlas booster engines tumbling.